Root Crops Stabilize Cholesterol

by Scott Davis | Apr 20, 2012 | 30 comments

A new study conducted by the Department of Science and Technology’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute reveals incredible benefit of root crops. The fiber in root crops such as camote, or sweet potatoes, can send bad cholesterol levels plummeting, according to the...

Why Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Rise With Age

by Julissa Clay | Apr 7, 2012 | 26 comments

Is there a single reason why these levels creep into the danger zone with age? Most doctors will tell you no… that there are simply too many other variables that accompany aging that will affect blood pressure, cholesterol, sexual performance, metabolism, etc. But are...

High Fat and High Blood Pressure: Fiction of Fact?

by Christian Goodman | Apr 6, 2012 | 17 comments

High fat diets have been targeted as unhealthy and a serious cause of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart attacks and strokes for over 30 years now. Lately however, there has been great dispute over if this is actually true or not. A new study from the...

What Causes Stroke and Heart Attack… Really!

by Christian Goodman | Apr 3, 2012 | 42 comments

One minute he was walking ahead of me on a 10 miles hike, cursing me (jokingly) for being lazy and dragging behind, the next, he was lying down holding his chest in agony. That’s how I experienced my favorite uncle’s heart attack when I was 10 years old. And that’s...

Amino Acid Helps Protect Heart From Cholesterol

by Scott Davis | Mar 26, 2012 | 10 comments

Eating large quantities of the amino acid taurine – obtained mostly from poultry rich diet – may help promote heart health and shield the cardiovascular system from cholesterol-related damage. This research, conducted by NYU Langone Medical Center scientists, tested...

The One Supplement That Cures Everything – Maybe!

by ShellyManning | Mar 17, 2012 | 57 comments

Being a fan of natural health, you’ve probably heard the terms Antioxidant and Oxidization. Some natural health “experts” have been swearing by this concept to cure pretty much anything from arthritis to cancer and heart attack. As always, when a new “magic cure” is...